C I 4c Bt tan BIait1 Eighty-Three Years of Editorial Freedom Vol. LXXXIV, No. 75 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, December 6, 1973 Ten Cents Twelve Pages IfYOUSECE NWS APPENCA Y A necessary alteration The newsprint shortage, caused primarily by striking paper mill workers in Canada, has caused cutbacks and alterations in the operations of most American news- papers, and The Daily is no exception. Being low on the priority lists of major newsprint suppliers, we have been forced to take whatever paper shipments we can get. After a few weeks of panic which verged on the frenetic, we managed to locate enough paper to carry us through until after Christmas, at which time, we hope, the shortage will be somewhat alleviated. One catch: The paper we received is in a narrower width than our usual stock. Thus, at least temporarily, The Daily will be slimmer, containing only seven columns of type as opposed to our usual eight. Please bear with us. Dylan concert confirmed Bob Dylan and The Band will definitely be in town for a concert on the night of Feb. 2. Scheduling conflicts with a gymnastics meet set for that afternoon at Crisler have been worked out by gymnastics coach Newt Loken and UAC-Daystar representative Sue Young. According to Young, Loken's willingness to compromise and make concessions can be credited with saving the concert. She also reports that a number to be called for ticket in- formation will be in operation starting tomorrow. That number is 763-1109. 0 Trial on wards Dec. 18 The city's contested ward boundaries plan will go to trial Dec. 18, less than two weeks before political candi- dates in the city are required to have their nomination petitions filed for the primary election in February. The case will be heard in Washtenaw County Circuit Court by visiting judge William Peterson of Cadillac. The case has been tied up in the courts since a coalition of Demo- crats and Human Rights Party members on the City Council approved the plan last December over Republi- can objections. Amendments to the plan passed by the GOP majority now on council are apparently in a state of legal limbo pending the outcome of the trial. Both sides accuse the other of jerrymander. PIRGIM probes hearing aids The Public Interest Group in Michigan (PIRGIM) has released a survey which attacks hearing aid dealers in the state as being unqualified and opportunistic. The report calls for'new legislation to stopt hearing aid deal- ers from selling aids without examination of the patient by a physician and a professional audiologist. Under cur- rent law, any high school graduate who is over 18 years old and is "of good moral character" can sell hearing aids, providing he or she passes a simple test and an apprenticeship period. "The hearing aid dealer makes money only if he sells hearing aids," says the reports. "Thus, there is an incentive to sell an aid to anyone the dealer can get hold of. However, only about 19 per cent of people with hearing problems can be helped by an aid alone." 0 Happenings,. . ... are relatively light. They include a mass meeting of registered student organizations tonight at 8:30 p.m., Rm 2207-09 of the Union, to discuss upcoming negotia- tions over guidelines for the use of University facilities by student groups . . . Democrats from the Second Ward will meet tonight at 8:30 p.m. in Klein Lounge, Alice Lloyd Hall, to discuss candidate selection and other city issues . . . The Chile Support Coalition meets tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Newman Center. . . The Naked Wrench Bicycle Co-op is sponsoring a meeting concerning pend- ing bike safety legislation, tonight in Rm 4203 of the Union, at 8 p.m. . . . The Kelsey Museum is sponsoring a lecture by Prof. S. G. Turner of the University of London on "Menander, Mosaics and Paypri," at 4:10 p.m., Rm 2009 Angell Hall. 0 Take me, I'm yours Bobby Ferguson, pictured at left, has asked Gov. Robert Ray of ,...Iowa to give him a life term in the Iowa State Penitentiary, even though Ferguson has done nothing to deserve incarceration. Fergu- son, 39; who was born of a con- vict mother whom he never knew, says he considers the penitentiary to be his home: He has spent all but 16 months of his life in various state institutions. 0 Stock market divebombs The stock market resumed what appears to be an in- exorable slide yesterday, dragging the Dow Jones indus- trial average below 800 to its lowest close in more than three years The market finished down 14.90 at 788.31, continuing what has been the decline which many invest- ors have blamed on the energy crisis. Dow has plunged 198.75 points since Oct. 29. Investors yesterday were not even voicing their usual protestations that the market's decline is a "slump," or their exhortations to the coun- try's big money to be "bullish on America." The experts were predicting that the worst is yet to come. 0 On the inside . .. The Arts Page continues its coverage of the local cul- tural scene ... A Pacific News Service feature on the effect of the oil crisis on Japan graces the Editorial Page ...And Sports Writer Roger Rossiter writes about 'YOU'RE GONNA SEE TROUBLE NOW' Truckers By DAN BIDDLE poured fro YPSILANTI-Bob Battleday, a truckdriver shared rc for the last 15 years, leaned forward on the with his counter at Oleson's Truck Stop and let the four and steam from a cup of coffee warm his face. from Ohio "You're gonna see trouble now," he said Along t slowly, "because your whole so-called fuel wooden ta crisis is just starting to hit the trucker too with worr hard. One thing is certain-" he patted his problems wallet and smiled-"the tenderest part of east on I a truck driver's anatomy is his left hip big juncti pocket." aded the limits and OLESON'S, AN Ypsi truckstop half a said they mile from I-94, was noisy and crowded last blockades night. Tammy Wynette's sugar-sweet voice two state City to be Tribal. frustrated by' crisis om the jukebox as a burly trucker o u n d after round of pinball wife and some friends. Outside, five axle trailer rigs rumbled in , Illinois, and Indiana. he counter and at half a dozen ables, men in thick jackets spoke ,y and amazement about their new on the highway. In Toledo, back I-80 through Pennsylvania, at a on in Gary, Ind., trucks had block- highway to protest low speed d high fuel prices. State troopers might arrest the drivers if the couldn't be cleared. In at least s, delegations of truckers were already conferring with governor's aides and coming away dissatisfied. At Oleson's, everybody was dissatisfied. Battleday ordered a veal cutlet platter and announced: "There isn't much that makis a guy madder than havin' a $30,000 rig sit- tin' out there, and all of the sudden he can't afford to drive it. One guy gets fired up, then a couple of other guys, and before you know it everything stops working until they straighten this damn thing out." EARLY LAST SUMMER he was buying his diesel fuel at 25.9 cents a gallon. Now, Battleday said, the cheapest station in De- troit posts 33 cents. "I heard a guy yester- day sayin' it's up to 74 a gallon in Grand Rapids," he added. At the other end of the counter, a younger man in overalls looked up and shouted, "Seventy-four! Cents? A gallon?" Battleday nodded and grinned. "But you shouldn't believe everything you hear." A WAITRESS with bobbed hair delivered Battleday's veal and said, "I don't worry. I don't even drive a car." None of the truckers in Oleson's had seen any blockades yet, but everyone had heard the news and agreed that something had to be done. Paul Richart was on his way from Detroit to Belvedere, Ill., with a five-axle rig full See DRIVERS, Page 8 0Oil price hiked in up attempt to production Funding By JACK KROST Tribal Funding Inc. intends to take legal action to retreive $15,900 the organization feels is still owed it under a federal revenue sharing contract with the city, spokesman John Sinclair announced yesterday. In a special press conference yesterday, Sinclair estimated that "within a week" the organization will file suit against the city of Ann Arbor, demanding full pay- ment of the remainder of the con- tract money. TRIBAL FUNDING is the finan- cial arm of Tribal Council, a local community organization committed to providing various youth oriented services. The contract in question, orig- inally signed under the previous Democrat dominated City Council administration last March, was rescinded at last Monday's Coun- cil meeting. As the Council Republicans who sponsored the move saw it, Tribal Funding wasn't fulfilling their end of the contract bargain and had committed several contract viola- tions-which entitled the city to stop further payments. UNDER THE NOW rescinded contract, the city had agreed to pay Tribal Funding $16,500 plus three $400 quarterly payments for office expenses, using federal rev- enue sharing money, over a peri'd of 12 months, in exchange for var- ious services by Tribal Funding, including presenting 24 concerts. However, in a 6-4 vote last Mon- day night the Republican majorny on City Council forced the resolu- tion through Council prohibiting all further payment on the remaining money due Tribal Funding. Up to this point, only $1,370 of the $16,500 total plus two quarterly payments have been paid. AS THE BASIS for their resolu- tion Monday, the Republicans charged Tribal Funding with non- performance of the contract terms. Accompanied at the press con- ference by Democratic City Council member Carole Jones (Second Ward), Sinclair also presented his own version on the Republican charges. He maintained that the reason Tribal Funding has presented only one of the 24 concerts originally contracted for is because tie or- ganization hasn't been able to lo- cate a ballroom, which is a pre- requisite to putting on concerts. HE ALLEGED that the Univer- sity is unwilling to rent Tribal Funding auditoriums or the Mich- igan Union ballroom for concerts, because of what he calls "its com- mitment to prevent University stu- dents from mixing with community people." WASHINGTON (I)-The government yesterday authorized a two cent a gallon increase in the price of home heating oil in an effort to increase production of the fuel. The Cost of Living Council simultaneously ordered a one cent de- crease in the price of gasoline at the refinery level. MEANWHILE, the Saudi Arabian oil minister, Sheik Ahmen Zaki Yamani, said his government would be willing to relax its oil embargo to this country in phased steps with Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab lands. Yamani met with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and later told newsmen "if Israel decides to withdraw and agrees'to a timetable there could be a timetable to relax the embargo." Consumers will begin paying the extra two cents a gallon for home heating oil in January. But they probably will not see any price de- crease in gasoline at the pump because of other increased costs in producing gasoline. THE INCREASE permitted for heating oil applies to all distillate oils from refineries including diesel fuel, kerosene, and jet fuel. The action will serve as a test of the theory of many high adminis- tration officials that the government can force adjustments to the coun- try's energy shortage by changing prices. In other energy developments: 0 The Cost of Living Council said it has received complaints that some truck stop operators have been overcharging truck drivers for diesel fuel, and it promised an immediate investigation. * The council said it is estimat- ing the potential shortage of pe- troleum resulting from the Arab oil embargo at 2.1 million barrels a day, considerably less than the White House estimate of 3.5 million. barrels a day. 0 The Law Enforcement Assist- ance Administration said the nation may face an increase in street crime and consumer fraud as a result of the energy crisis. Brown- outs could curtail street lighting, it said, and a target of con men could be activities related to the energy crisis. * Senate-House conferees will meet today to work out a com- promise bill that would put the na- tion on year-around daylight saving time, probably by Dec. 30. " Arthur Okun, an economic ad- viser to the late President Lyndon Johnson, said that gasoline station riots may occur if the government fails to act quickly to ration gaso- line or pass a tax to dampen its consumption. * The deputy White House press secretary, Gerald Warren, asked whether Nixon condones the truck- ers' highway blockades, said "it's not that simple a situation." He said Nixon told a Cabinet meeting that there was an urgent need "to meet problems of inequity." * The Senate refused to delay action on a $20 billion, 10-year pro- gram of energy research and de- velopment. Teamsters president Frank Fitz- simmons requested a conference on the energy crisis with President Nixon to discuss the impact on the trucking industry and Teamsters See PRICE, Page 7 AP Photo TRUCKERS, protesting highway speed limits and diesel fuel prices block the Delaware Memorial Bridge near Wilmington, Del., yes- terday. Trucks are on the approaches leading to the bridge from the New Jersey side, looking into Delaware. The bridge is part of a main artery between Washington, D.C. and New York City. Haig: Nixon by tape eras WASHINGTON OP) - President Nixon was described yesterday as being "very, very disturbed" at hearing three weeks ago that 18 minutes of a subpoenaed Water- gate tape had been obliterated. "He was almost incredulous that this could have happened," Nix- on's chief of staff Alexander Haig told U. S. District Judge John Sirica. HAIG RECOUNTED for the court the sequence of events that resulted in public disclosure that a crucial segment of a June 20, 1972 Nixon conversation with H. R. Haldeman was supplanted by a buzz lasting 18 minutes. Nixon had been told on Oct. 1 by his secretary, R that she believed ed over 41/2-5 mi versation acciden cribing the tape, testimony. Miss that Nixon believ deman conversat cluded in a subpo gate tapes by th gate prosecutor. "I recalled fo dent," Haig sai formed him tha ion that this wa conversation had "HE WAS V turbed. He was a that this could ha 'di~sturbed' " 4 Lire incident ose Mary Woods, Earlier, Miss Woods was called she had record- hurriedly to the witness stand for nutes of that con- the third time and she again said ntly while trans- forcefully that "I could see no way according to her at all I could have caused the 18- Woods testified minute gap." ved that the Hal- She complained to the judge that ion was not in- news accounts made her feel she ena issued Water- was on trial by newspapers, radio ie special Water- and television and that she had read that Sirica had reasonable r him the acci- doubt that she told the truth. d, "and then in- t counsel's opin- "I KNOW you're not satisfied s not subpoenaed with my testimony," she told Siri- changed. ca. At her first appearance - Nov. 8 - at the fact finding hear- ERY, very dis- ing into questions surrounding the lmost incredulous Watergate tapes, Miss Woods said ve happened." See NIXON, Page 2 MID-EAST TENSIONS RISE: Geneva conference endangered By Reuter Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy yesterday summoned the Soviet and American ambassadors in Cairo to his office for separate meetings on the growing tension along the Suez front and the forth- rri a Ct nan , ..nnfaronro to attend a peace conference. The sources would not discount the possibility that Egypt was seri- ously considering a postponement of the Geneva talks until Israel had fully met the six-point- ceasefire agreement. EGYPT SUSPENDED the Kilometer 101 military talks last Thurs-